McCook Army Air Field
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McCook Army Airfield was activated on 1 April 1943. It is located nine miles northwest of McCook, a city in Red Willow County, Nebraska, United States and is southwest of North Platte, Nebraska. It wa
McCook Army Airfield, 1944, looking northeast
McCook Army Airfield, 1944, looking northwest
A former hangar at McCook Army Airfield.
486th Air Expeditionary Wing
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The 486th Air Expeditionary Wing is a provisional United States Air Force unit assigned to the Air Combat Command. As a provisional unit, it may be activated or inactivated at any time.
McCook Army Air Field
…454th Bombardment Group (Heavy) (July - October 1943) 486th Bombardment Group (Heavy) (September - November 1943) 465th Bombardment Group (Heavy) (October 1943 - February 1944…
B-24s (Square-O) of the 486th Bomb Group.
B-17s (Square-W) of the 486th Bomb Group.
"A Fatal Tragedy" memorial plaque remembering an accident of the 486th Bomb Group that occurred on 15 October 1944 in Sudbury, Suffolk, England
Memorial at Barksdale Global Power Museum with a propeller from the B-17 that crashed in Sudbury (above)